Oil-can



(No Model.)

J. D. MWTON.-

OIL GAN.

Patented Nov. 11

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JAMES D. NEl/VTON, OF THAYER, MISSOURI.

OIL-CAN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 440,188, dated November 11, 1890.

Application filed July 29, 1890.

To a/ZZ whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES D. NEWTON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Thayer, in the county of Oregon and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Oil-Oan, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that class of vessels known as spouted feeders or oil-cans, and of that particular class thereof designed for oiling locomotives, railway-car journals, and other large machinery.

The objects of the invention are to provide such a can with means for cutting off and permitting the exit of oil therefrom, and to do this in a convenient, simple, and economical manuel', an d to adapt the parts to be readily separated.

.Other objects and advantages of the invention will hereinafter appear, and the novel features thereof will be particularly pointed out in the claim.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective of an oil-can constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section of the same. Fig. 3 is a detail in perspective of the rockshaft, its arm, and valve-rod.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in all the figures of the drawings.

1 designates the oil can or receptacle, which is provided at one side with a handle 2, by which said can may be carried and manipulated.

The can is covered by a conical cap 3, provided at its apex with a neck or opening et, and one side of the same with an opening 5, provided with a removable stopper or cap adapted to be removed for the purpose of illing the can. The neck 4 is snugly fitted by a hollow bushing 6, prevented from being forced into the neck and through the saine at the upper end of the bushing by means of an annular iiange 7, forming a stop.

S designates a rock-shaft journaled in.the cap 3, for which purpose an opening 9 is formed, the opposite end of the shaft taking bearing in a block 10, the outer face of which is inclined to agree with the inclination of the cap 3. The end of the shaft passes through the opening 9, and outside of the same is provided with a thumb-lever 11, occurring directly over the handle 2 of the can, and

Serial No. 360,292. (No model.)

adapted to be depressed by the thumb of the operator.

12 designates a rock-arm, mounted upon the shaft 8, which latter, it will be observed, extends across the cap 3 at one side of the opening or bore of the bushing 6, so that the rock-arm extends across said opening or bore and terminates at the opposite side thereof. A coiled spring 13 has its lower end secured to the free end of the rock-arm and its upper end connected to the lower end of the bushing, said spring exerting a tendency to lift the rock-arm.

14e designates a tapered spout, and 15 a coupling for connecting said spout to the bushing 6. The coupling is simply a cylind rical tube, the upper end of which is in this instance conical to receive the lower larger end of the spout 14, and the lower end of which is preferably screw-threaded, as at 16, into the upper end of the hollow bushing G. The coupling is provided at its center with an annular milled flange 17, by which it may be unscrewed from the bushing.

18 designates a cap fitted over the upper v end of the spout 14 and centrally bored, which latter is reduced to form a conical valve-seat 19. Above the valve-seat the exterior of the cap is reduced and screw-threaded, as at 20, and receives the lower larger end of a screwthreaded plug 21, bored hollow, and reduced at its upper end to receive the nozzle of the spout, which latter may or may not have its extremity curved, as shown.

23 designates a rod,the lower end of which is bifurcated, and is pivoted, as at 24, to the central portion of the rock-arm 12, said rod projecting upwardly through the hollowbushing and provided Wit-h a socket 25, in which is removably mounted, preferably by screwthreads, the lower end of a valve-stem 26, which extends up through the spout and terminates in a conical valve-plug 27, pressed by the spring 13 into the conical seat 19 of the cap 1S.

By reason of the valve-plug being normally maintained in the seat the escape of oil from the spout is prevented, even though said can is carried carelessly and in an inverted position. Furthermore, in inserting the long spout into the machinery it sometimes happened that the can must necessarilyl be inthe same.

verted in orderto reach the oiling-points, and were it not provided with the cut-0E mechanism the oil would inevitably escape and run over adjacent portions of the machinery, which it is undesirable to oil, and thus dirty By my invention, however, as before stated,the canmay be carried in any position and the oil cannot escape. Vhen the nozzle has reached the point of oiling, it is simply necessary to depress the thumb-lever with the thumb that grasps the handle 2, which causes a partial rotation of the rockshaft and rock-arm and withdraws the valvestem downwardly and the plug from its seat. When sufficient oil has escaped, it is simply necessary to release the thumb-lever from the pressure of the thumb, and the coiled spring acts to return the plug 27 snugly to its seat- 19,whereby the oil is immediatelycut off and at or near the point of escape,leaving no surplus oil to escape after cutting oit, as would be the case if the cutting oit took place at the base of the spout. In this manner remote parts of machinery may be easily oiled without any loss of oil or dirtying of other parts. It is apparent that the parts may be readily separated for the purpose of repairing or cleaning the same and replaced or assembled.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- The combination, with the can 1, having the opening 4, the transverse rock-shaft 8, journaled in and having one end extended through the wall of the can and terminating in a thumb-lever, the rock-arm mounted upon the shaft, and the rod 23, pivoted to the arm and provided at its upper end with a threaded socket, of the bushing 6, internally threaded and mounted in the opening 4, the coupling 15, threaded in the upper end of the bushing, the spout 14, fitted over the upper end of the bushing, a bored cap tted overthe upper end of the spout and having a reduced threaded upper end, a centrally-bored plug threaded on said upper end, a discharge-spout mounted thereon, a valve-rod having its lower end threaded in the socket of the rod 23, a valveplug secured to the upper end of said valverod and. taking into a seat formed in the lower end of the said cap 18, and the coiled spring 18, connected to the free end of the rock-arm 12 and to the lower end otl the bushing 6, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as n my own have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES D. NEIVTON.

Witnesses:

OSCAR RICE, R. A. JOHNSON. 

